Another jam-packed edition of good news stories from the gender beat this week. Enjoy! Mermaids On The Rocks The Charity Commission has launched a statutory inquiry, its most serious form of investigation, into Mermaids. “The Commission opened a regulatory compliance case into the charity in September 2022 after safeguarding allegations were raised. It has now formalised its engagement by opening a statutory inquiry.
The Zero Tolerance story takes on a new dimension when you realise that there is, literally, an elephant in the room. Mridul Wadhwa is sitting there, in front of the white-jumpered table. That is the trans-identifed man running the Ediburgh Rape Crisis Centre. So all of the 'lets' not talk about it' is so that he will not feel offended by accusations that trans represents dangers to woman in single sex spaces. This is a sickening mass self-deception on the part of the women in that room who supported this situation. I am disgusted by them and embarrassed that women can be so gullible and ignorant. Thanks, Graham, for unveiling thr truth of this. because Wadhwa's presence was not obvious from the new stories or twitter video and that dimension of it says so much more.
I think Sturgeon really hates women and really hates LGB people, that is the only conclusion I can draw from all of this. The SNP was set up to gain independence for Scotland and yet they seem more determined to trans away the gay and get women to accept men in dresses. So she a misogynist and a homophobe. I find women who advocate for this pernicious ideology even more infuriating than the men who do, because these women are betraying their own sex for a myth. And ooh the AGPs and perverts love these women, they are these men’s useful idiots and the women, like Sturgeon, can’t see it.
Never attribute to malice which can be explained by stupidity.
In Nicola Sturgeon's case it's the variety: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I think it's a lot more likely that she is just way out of her depth as First Minister in general, and with GRA reform in particular, and driven more by a desire to do anything to annoy the English, and most of all Tories, than anything else. Kathleen Stock has analyzed this in a piece on Scottish nationalism just a few weeks ago on Unherd.
That's something you can observe with acitivists of (formerly) progressive organisations and causes everywhere: They see affirmation of their causes not in the likely consequences of their demands or the factual basis of their claims but in the rejection by whoever has been defined as the enemy. If my enemy is Group A and Group A rejects a cause or policy, then this cause and policy must be good.
It's ironic that these identitarian lemmings have lost all idea of their own selves - and hence their identity - and come to define themselves only by their enemies, but it is what it is.
I see no reason why this explanation should not be applied to Nicola Sturgeon, and Sturgeon gives me no reason why I should not.
I also think it is a far more plausible explanation than making assumptions about her feelings - which we couldn't possibly know.
I think the fact that the SNP has received large donations from drug companies that makes puberty blockers and are in some unholy alliance with the Greens are other contributing factors.
I remember when the LibDems came out all woo woo after receiving funding from drug companies, I will bet Labour has also been given money to back this awful ideology.
You are right about wanting to be different to England/Westminster/Tories. It was the same with lockdown with the Scottish rules being slightly different to England's. I could understand greatly different, but the differences were just marginal. Confusing for families on both side of the border but she could demonstrate her independence from the wicked English government. And of course she also wants to be different to Alex Salmond. So in 2014 the SNP under AS promised that an independent Scotland would be rich because of it's oil and gas. Now the SNP (apart from Aberdonian SNP MSPs - funny that) are against using these natural resources.
A commenter on here wrote about "working with" her before she became so prominent. She is an aggressive self-promoter who will do anything her owners tell her to do. In pursuing so-called equality, more and more women are behaving like men do, and we shouldn't be surprised. It's all ego, power, and self-importance, no surprise there.
How bloody typical that the Sturgeon fanzine 'The National' describes the brave outspoken woman heckling Sturgeon as an 'Anti self ID activist'. Completely off beam as usual.
She works in the VAW sector or she wouldn't have been invited or admitted (and we know other similar women were turned away).
Honest to god, I was on my feet cheering. That clip went viral within minutes.
She'll regret it if she does, when she finds that men are very prepared to identify as women in order to have access to women and girls. Men pursue particular career paths to do this, ffs, making a request for a GRC is a breeze. Sturgeon will share in the responsibility for any female who is harmed or harassed as a consequence of her misogynistic legislation.
I'm no expert on Scotland, the SNP or Nicola Sturgeon, but I fear yes.
Usually, when a political leader has commited him- or herself so deeply to an issue as Sturgeon has to Self ID, there is no backing down. Particularly when we consider that Sturgeon flat out denies there is any significant resistance to Self ID anyways.
Backing down would mean aknowledging she has been wrong - and that would mean admitting to having been wrong on far more than just this one issue.
The most viable strategy for all commited to preserving sanity is doing whatever can be done to stall Self ID in Scotland until the next regional elections. They may well bring another First Minister, because Sturgeon is pushing a few agendas that may be more unpopular than she thinks, and that have parts of her own party rebel against her. Should SNP lose a few seats that would probably be enough to do the trick.
Thanks. Yes she really does seem to be defined by stubbornness. I just can't imagine doing what she is doing. Does she really believe her own lies, children aren't being hurt? Men won't take advantage of the system? She can't possibly think that, unless has has her utopia specs on.
Do you really think another party could get in? SNP has such a stronghold, even with quite a lot of discontent.
I have no idea if SNP could actually lose power in Scotland. But with Sturgeon exposing herself that much on two controversial issues - Self ID and independence - even small losses for the party could be enough for her party to find a replacement for her.
She's a puppet for her hubby's gay mafia - she's also is self hating closet herself so its a stew of internalised homophobia and complete lack of empathy, which being a narc isnt difficult.
That wonderful woman who spoke up at the charity event where every women say silent says everything about the captured 3rd sector but also how the middle classes are wilfully blind 'cos its not 'kind' or 'nice' to say the truth.
As for the Man running the Rape centre - only in the charity sector.
Just reading about the Primark protests on Rebekah Wershbale's Twitter. A few people on Twitter remarking that middle class women are moaning about middle class women's rights again.
Hmmm... middle class women (no evidence to suggest that) are fighting because they know lower class women will be disproportionately affected by the wider issue of men in women's spaces, i.e. men in women's jails and refuges etc. If you're NOT fighting this, you're more likely to be middle class. Not that I see that as a bad thing - but they clearly do!
There's a theory (from those who seem to know about these things) that Sturgeon's in that phase of leadership where, like Thatcher in her 3rd term, she's dispensed with anyone who might tell her that she's about to do something disastrous that most people don't want. In Thatcher's case it was the Poll Tax, which seems like a minor scuffle compared to this pervert's charter.
Yeah, she was quite good at manipulating Scots to think she was keeping them safe during Covid, relaxing rules 2+ weeks after Boris. I was living in Scotland at the time. She did seem pretty switched on. I had no idea she would act (and actually be) this fecking stupid and short-sighted.
A pithy, devastating quote from the Guardian piece—saying that the crucial issue for self-ID is why rights of a GRC should be extended “to any man who says they identify as female, including men who derive sexual gratification from cross dressing, and male sex offenders looking for access to spaces where women are vulnerable, or who would prefer to be jailed with vulnerable women.”
This is it about self-ID, a nutshell.
Self-ID has been implemented in the State of California's corrections system, allowing male offenders, including sex offenders, “who would prefer to be jailed with women” to be transferred to women's jails and prisons.
"a universal guide to human rights which affirm binding international legal standards with which all States must comply. They promise a different future where all people born free and equal in dignity and rights can fulfill that precious birthright".
But the 'precious birthright' of your sexed embodiment is not so 'precious' obviously. Such dangerous nonsense deceptively couched in aspirational language.
Yes Pink News, a 'Trans Person' was beaten, but not in the way you'd like to report it!
Thanks JL, a lovely way to start the week.
Ah thank you, CB. So glad you enjoyed it! :-)
The Zero Tolerance story takes on a new dimension when you realise that there is, literally, an elephant in the room. Mridul Wadhwa is sitting there, in front of the white-jumpered table. That is the trans-identifed man running the Ediburgh Rape Crisis Centre. So all of the 'lets' not talk about it' is so that he will not feel offended by accusations that trans represents dangers to woman in single sex spaces. This is a sickening mass self-deception on the part of the women in that room who supported this situation. I am disgusted by them and embarrassed that women can be so gullible and ignorant. Thanks, Graham, for unveiling thr truth of this. because Wadhwa's presence was not obvious from the new stories or twitter video and that dimension of it says so much more.
Well done Sheffield 👏
I think Sturgeon really hates women and really hates LGB people, that is the only conclusion I can draw from all of this. The SNP was set up to gain independence for Scotland and yet they seem more determined to trans away the gay and get women to accept men in dresses. So she a misogynist and a homophobe. I find women who advocate for this pernicious ideology even more infuriating than the men who do, because these women are betraying their own sex for a myth. And ooh the AGPs and perverts love these women, they are these men’s useful idiots and the women, like Sturgeon, can’t see it.
Never attribute to malice which can be explained by stupidity.
In Nicola Sturgeon's case it's the variety: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I think it's a lot more likely that she is just way out of her depth as First Minister in general, and with GRA reform in particular, and driven more by a desire to do anything to annoy the English, and most of all Tories, than anything else. Kathleen Stock has analyzed this in a piece on Scottish nationalism just a few weeks ago on Unherd.
That's something you can observe with acitivists of (formerly) progressive organisations and causes everywhere: They see affirmation of their causes not in the likely consequences of their demands or the factual basis of their claims but in the rejection by whoever has been defined as the enemy. If my enemy is Group A and Group A rejects a cause or policy, then this cause and policy must be good.
It's ironic that these identitarian lemmings have lost all idea of their own selves - and hence their identity - and come to define themselves only by their enemies, but it is what it is.
I see no reason why this explanation should not be applied to Nicola Sturgeon, and Sturgeon gives me no reason why I should not.
I also think it is a far more plausible explanation than making assumptions about her feelings - which we couldn't possibly know.
I think the fact that the SNP has received large donations from drug companies that makes puberty blockers and are in some unholy alliance with the Greens are other contributing factors.
This needs to be investigated and reported on. I wonder if the Telegraph team are looking for a new exposee?
I remember when the LibDems came out all woo woo after receiving funding from drug companies, I will bet Labour has also been given money to back this awful ideology.
I think the LD's have had £1m from Pharma. Not aware that the SNP have.. Worth taking a look at their Electoral Commission returns.
I always believe in following the ££££
The snp will take money from anywhoo
She’s way out of her depth and can blame her inadequacies ( spelling ) on the twitler youth that she’s surrounded herself with
She’s ( snp ) had no personal donations in last 3 months ,all from wm
Still no word of missing 600k
Pretty sure I’d know where 600k went from my bank account
I’d be more astounded to know where I had 600 k 😂
You are right about wanting to be different to England/Westminster/Tories. It was the same with lockdown with the Scottish rules being slightly different to England's. I could understand greatly different, but the differences were just marginal. Confusing for families on both side of the border but she could demonstrate her independence from the wicked English government. And of course she also wants to be different to Alex Salmond. So in 2014 the SNP under AS promised that an independent Scotland would be rich because of it's oil and gas. Now the SNP (apart from Aberdonian SNP MSPs - funny that) are against using these natural resources.
A commenter on here wrote about "working with" her before she became so prominent. She is an aggressive self-promoter who will do anything her owners tell her to do. In pursuing so-called equality, more and more women are behaving like men do, and we shouldn't be surprised. It's all ego, power, and self-importance, no surprise there.
How bloody typical that the Sturgeon fanzine 'The National' describes the brave outspoken woman heckling Sturgeon as an 'Anti self ID activist'. Completely off beam as usual.
She works in the VAW sector or she wouldn't have been invited or admitted (and we know other similar women were turned away).
Honest to god, I was on my feet cheering. That clip went viral within minutes.
Fab roundup! Thank you.
Do we still think that Nicola Sturgeon is going to double down and bring in self-ID anyway?
Thanks, Kay! (And, yes, I think NS is too far down the rabbit hole to turn back.)
She'll regret it if she does, when she finds that men are very prepared to identify as women in order to have access to women and girls. Men pursue particular career paths to do this, ffs, making a request for a GRC is a breeze. Sturgeon will share in the responsibility for any female who is harmed or harassed as a consequence of her misogynistic legislation.
Scotland will be a perverts' paradise, like Thailand.
Totally agree. How will she then revoke these rights she has given to men!? Once you have given someone legal rights, you can't just take them away!?
Unfortunately they can then actually claim their 'rights' are being taken away.
And their rights would be being taken away, even if they had no (actual) right to them in the first place 🙈😔
Oh, you can. You can say: Well, we've really been wrong on this issue.
Happens all the time, btw.
Can we get this confession for "Brexit" too? Off topic, yes. but important, no?
Reckon she'll do her best to double down. Of the 150 ammendments tabled not one has been accepted.
And yes it is 150, which goes to show just how shite this bill is.
Only bright spot is after dissing the UN "person" I think ANY future job prospect to the UN is off the table.
But then she's just another woman who's concerns are "not valid".
150 amendments. Wow! I only have 1 amendment. Scrap the whole thing!!
I'm no expert on Scotland, the SNP or Nicola Sturgeon, but I fear yes.
Usually, when a political leader has commited him- or herself so deeply to an issue as Sturgeon has to Self ID, there is no backing down. Particularly when we consider that Sturgeon flat out denies there is any significant resistance to Self ID anyways.
Backing down would mean aknowledging she has been wrong - and that would mean admitting to having been wrong on far more than just this one issue.
The most viable strategy for all commited to preserving sanity is doing whatever can be done to stall Self ID in Scotland until the next regional elections. They may well bring another First Minister, because Sturgeon is pushing a few agendas that may be more unpopular than she thinks, and that have parts of her own party rebel against her. Should SNP lose a few seats that would probably be enough to do the trick.
Thanks. Yes she really does seem to be defined by stubbornness. I just can't imagine doing what she is doing. Does she really believe her own lies, children aren't being hurt? Men won't take advantage of the system? She can't possibly think that, unless has has her utopia specs on.
Do you really think another party could get in? SNP has such a stronghold, even with quite a lot of discontent.
I have no idea if SNP could actually lose power in Scotland. But with Sturgeon exposing herself that much on two controversial issues - Self ID and independence - even small losses for the party could be enough for her party to find a replacement for her.
One can hope 👍👍👍
Well done Labour of Sheffield!
I love these good news updates, and this one's very upcheering.
Oh I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :-)
She's a puppet for her hubby's gay mafia - she's also is self hating closet herself so its a stew of internalised homophobia and complete lack of empathy, which being a narc isnt difficult.
That wonderful woman who spoke up at the charity event where every women say silent says everything about the captured 3rd sector but also how the middle classes are wilfully blind 'cos its not 'kind' or 'nice' to say the truth.
As for the Man running the Rape centre - only in the charity sector.
Just reading about the Primark protests on Rebekah Wershbale's Twitter. A few people on Twitter remarking that middle class women are moaning about middle class women's rights again.
Hmmm... middle class women (no evidence to suggest that) are fighting because they know lower class women will be disproportionately affected by the wider issue of men in women's spaces, i.e. men in women's jails and refuges etc. If you're NOT fighting this, you're more likely to be middle class. Not that I see that as a bad thing - but they clearly do!
Yeah true! They missed a golden opportunity there. Your bigotry's on show, handmaidens!
Thanks Jl
Always a pleasure!
Women's Hour, Radio 4. Hadley Freeman talks gender ideology / the Guardian
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fvx6
There's a theory (from those who seem to know about these things) that Sturgeon's in that phase of leadership where, like Thatcher in her 3rd term, she's dispensed with anyone who might tell her that she's about to do something disastrous that most people don't want. In Thatcher's case it was the Poll Tax, which seems like a minor scuffle compared to this pervert's charter.
Yeah, she was quite good at manipulating Scots to think she was keeping them safe during Covid, relaxing rules 2+ weeks after Boris. I was living in Scotland at the time. She did seem pretty switched on. I had no idea she would act (and actually be) this fecking stupid and short-sighted.
A pithy, devastating quote from the Guardian piece—saying that the crucial issue for self-ID is why rights of a GRC should be extended “to any man who says they identify as female, including men who derive sexual gratification from cross dressing, and male sex offenders looking for access to spaces where women are vulnerable, or who would prefer to be jailed with vulnerable women.”
This is it about self-ID, a nutshell.
Self-ID has been implemented in the State of California's corrections system, allowing male offenders, including sex offenders, “who would prefer to be jailed with women” to be transferred to women's jails and prisons.
Those damn Yogyakarta Principles!!!!!!!
"a universal guide to human rights which affirm binding international legal standards with which all States must comply. They promise a different future where all people born free and equal in dignity and rights can fulfill that precious birthright".
But the 'precious birthright' of your sexed embodiment is not so 'precious' obviously. Such dangerous nonsense deceptively couched in aspirational language.